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Wow, thank you! I'm delighted at the thought that the criteria may be useful. My feeling is that brevity is trivially automatable, as you suggest: just pick th
by dreeves 15y ago
Wow, thank you! I'm delighted at the thought that the criteria may be useful.
My feeling is that brevity is trivially automatable, as you suggest: just pick the function. Though brevity in terms of syllables might also matter. ("Wikipedia" is a little longer than its string length suggests.)
Greppability is automatable by picking a corpus to grep in, though that's easier said than done.
Googlability (including checking the availability of domain names) is plenty automatable.
But the other four (evocativity, pronounceability, spellability, and verbability) seem pretty hopeless to me.
- BerislavLopac 15y agoWell, for what it's worth, I quickly put up an Excel document which can help to assess a number of names quickly. I used Excel rather than Google spreadsheet since it has conditional cell formatting, which gives a nice background color. The spreadsheet can be found at http://j.mp/t2zRYQ http://j.mp/t2zRYQ I think such a tool could be of great help for people picking names, similarly to the services you linked to in your article, even if one had to manually enter all the grades, simply so one could compare different ideas. A Web tool would be much better than my little spreadsheet, and If I had the time I'd build it myself; and if someone doesn't beat me to it I probably well. :)